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Dr. Neil Hudson Aggett

… job. In an attempt to understand his patients and make communication easier between him and those he treated, he learned Zulu. It was at Baragwanath that Aggett became involved in the trade union movement. He championed worker rights through his …

Prehistory of the Pretoria area

… began as a result of the movement of several Nguni groups across the Drakensberg from KwaZulu Natal, in order to escape Zulu expansion. Mzilikazi , a general who had fled from King Shaka's army, was the cause of much of the destruction of the …

Events leading to the Bambatha Rebellion

… In 1887 Zululand was annexed by the colony of Natal and the Zulu were gradually stripped of most of their arable land. There was widespread poverty, made worse by a series of natural …

Peter McKenzie Brown

… African writer Peter Abrahams to return home. Back in South Africa, he studied African languages (Brown became fluent in Zulu) and ‘Native Law and Administration’ at the University of Cape Town. In the 1950s the Local Health Commission in …

Saul Msane

… and at the Healdtown Institution in the Eastern Cape. In 1892 he undertook a concert tour of Europe together with a Zulu choir. In approximately 1907 he left Natal for the Transvaal and became a compound manager for a gold mine in …

John Hodgkiss

… has worked with many South African artists, completing monographs with Steven Cohen, Deborah Bell, David Koloane, Sandile Zulu, Handspring Puppet Company and others. Another close friend, Toby Shapshak, called Hodgkiss a “documentarian because he …

Penny Heyns

… family in Springs, Gauteng Province. She attended the local primary school and later Amanzimtoti High School in Kwa Zulu Natal where she matriculated in 1992. At school Heyns was sporty but swimming was her first choice. Heyns started …

Chief Kgosi Sekonyela

… royal family and later became the Chief of the Batlokwa people. His father was Mantatisi, who was expelled by King Shaka Zulu from the area he had conquered. In 1821 his father attacked a small Hlubi tribe and killed their headman and …

The Basotho

… of the Basotho people as he was responsible for drawing together the scattered Sotho peoples who had been driven apart by Zulu and Ndebele raids, and for creating Lesotho, the Basotho Kingdom. Moshoeshoe was the son of Mokoleti, a sub-chief and …

Grade 10 - Topic 4: Transformations in southern Africa after 1750

… the centrality of the ‘wars of Shaka’. Wars and disruptions took place, but most of them were not caused by Shaka and the Zulu. This unit investigates the recent research and explores the ways in which historical myths are constructed. …